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The Problem with LangChain
LangChain is complicated, so it must be better. Right?
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The most popular blog posts about ai & machine learning on Hacker News. 3,091 posts.
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Making o1, o3, and Sonnet 3.7 hallucinate for everyone
My (ops-but-sometimes-writes-scripts-to-help-out) coworker just tapped on my shoulder and asked me to look at his code that wasn't working. It was a bit something like this:
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Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API
GPT-3 is indeed a large step forward for AI text-generation, but there are very many caveats with the popular demos and use cases.
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Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams
How does it work? Every meeting of the flemish government in Belgium is live streamed on a youtube channel. When a livestream starts the software is searching for phones and tries to identify a distracted politician. This is done with the help of AI and face recognition. The video of the distracted politician are then…
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TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In
TIME is now serving two different versions of its website. Humans get the magazine. AI crawlers get a stripped down markdown copy with ads baked in that no person will ever see. I fetched one ordinary…
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Claude Code is a slot machine
Claude Code keeps me waiting. Here I am pressing return like a crack-addicted rodent in a lab. “Yes, I want to make this edit.” I watch as it works, glassy-eyed and bored as the code scrolls by, and on the edge of my seat because my ideas are about to become reality.
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OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that leadership wants OpenAI, the company, to focus. Seems like a plain old business strategy story. Nope! First, in more prosaic terms, the all-hands and …
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Two narratives about AI
I want to present you with two narratives about AI. Both of them are about using this technology to automate computer programming, but they point ... Read more
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AI scrapers request commented scripts
A new avenue for identifying greedy, badly-behaved bots
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Building a Personal AI Factory
Multiple parallel Claude-Code sessions power a self-improving AI factory where agents write, review, and refine code.
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Production AI systems are hard
The relationship between humans and machines. Click to read Methexis, by Kevin Fischer, a Substack publication.
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Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after
New models and new thresholds
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Using ChatGPT as a Co-Founder
In the quest to explore the capabilities of ChatGPT, I decided to utilized it as a startup brainstorming partner. From product description to building the product on AWS and GCP, crafting an elevat...
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The Machine Learning Job Market
I was on the job market recently, open to suggestions on what I should do next. I'm deeply thankful to all those who reached out and pitched their companies, and also to people who shared their wisdom of how they wanted to navigate their own careers.
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Taste in the age of AI and LLMs
AI made competent output cheap. That raises the value of taste and exposes its limits. The real edge is judgment paired with context, stakes, and the will to build.
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The coming industrialisation of exploit generation with LLMs
Recently I ran an experiment where I built agents on top of Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2 and then challenged them to write exploits for a zeroday vulnerability in the QuickJS Javascript interpreter. I adde…
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Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text?
Modern AI rewards being very weird.
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My deepfake DALL-E 2 vacation photos passed the Turing Test
I went on a real vacation, and created photos of a fake vacation using DALL-E 2. Most people couldn't tell the difference.
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Transformers from Scratch
Repository for personal website
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Building a Poor Man’s Deep Learning Camera in Python
Streaming a webcam to a deep learning model the hacker’s way
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Did GoogleAI just snooker one of Silicon Valley’s sharpest minds?
Clever Hans and how corporate AI plays the media, in 2022
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The Adolescence of Technology
Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI
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Text classification with Python 3.14's ZSTD module
Python 3.14 added Zstandard to stdlib; its incremental API finally makes classify-by-compression practical.
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How To Build a Naive Bayes Classifier
Compare crypto casino Singapore options on withdrawal speed, coins, wagering terms, KYC rules, offshore licensing and responsible play before you deposit.
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How to Start Learning Deep Learning
Due to the recent achievements of artificial neural networks across many different tasks (such as face recognition, object detection and Go), deep learning has become extremely popular. This post aims to be a starting point for those interested in learning more about it.
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How I use AI (Oct 2026)
I document how I use AI, one year after my first writeup. Everything's completely different.
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Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs
Open answers to a reader's letter.